Countess Beorhtgifu of Shrewsbury

Countess Beorhtgifu of Shrewsbury (851-) was the Countess of Shrewsbury.

Biography
Beorhtgifu was born in 851 to a lowborn Anglo-Saxon Christian family. She married Earl Leofric of Shrewsbury, who was 52 while she was 16, and she became a countess of Mercia.